"...It was Zeno, the 3rd century B.C. Greek philosopher, who gave form to the vision of a world which should be a single global community of humankind, 'in which all humans should be members one of another, citizens of one state without distinction of race or institutions.' It would take more than 2000 years for this vision to be imagined as a legal entity, with the creation of the League of Nations after World War I. Today's United Nations, the heritor of this impetus, is the largest and most powerful international body in the history of humankind that has grown out of Zeno's vision of a single global community...."